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From: normt@ihlpa.UUCP (N. R Tiedemann)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 08:16:11 EDT
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> Can someone please explain what Esperanto is?  I've never heard of it
> . . .
>         Steve Wall  @  Rochester Institute of Technology

	Esperanto is a "universal" language that was invented by an international
group of linguistics about 20 (I think) years ago. They intended for it to
be the language that everyone in the world would learn and be able to communicate
with. It incorporated different grammerical structures and words from most
of the modern languages and invented some new ones to boot. To my knownledge
it never made it past the linguistics conventions. It is not really spoken
by anyone, and the only place one can learn it is from a book. If you go to
any college library there will be a couple of grammer manuals on Esperanto.
(I looked them up once at the UW in Madison.)

		Norm Tiedemann
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